When lobbying for Veliaj is sold as legal consultancy

2025-06-25 12:09:00, Editorial Elvi FUNDO

These days, Erion Veliaj's propaganda office distributed in the media a material "drafted" by a studio that advertised itself as the legal consultancy studio of the accused Erion Veliaj.

Veliaj's latest convulsions
June 24, 21:18

We must clarify that no one is stopping anyone from hiring foreign law firms to explain to him the gravity, importance, and magnitude of the charges that the prosecution has brought against him. To do this, you don't have to read law or have a Sorbonne lawyer wife.

You just need to have a lot of money!

Even if you want to brag that you have a lot of money, you can pay both domestic and foreign studios at the same time.

Veliaj, 300 thousand dollars payment/ Law firm or lobbying firm from the USA?!
March 10, 15:41

Erion Veliaj does not lack money . In fact, SPAK's accusations are related precisely to money, so the amount spent is an argument that strengthens the accusation, not the defense, in this case .

The issue is elsewhere!

The charges against Erion Veliaj were filed by SPAK. The interim decisions, as well as other decisions regarding security measures against Erion Veliaj, have been confirmed at all levels of judicial review.

The Veliaj File: Investigations, Accusations and Facts
February 28, 19:27

This is the criminal justice system, not only across the Adriatic, but also beyond.

There is no law student who doesn't know this.

Subsequently, the insistence of Veliaj's law firms that they appear before the prosecution and in court as representatives of the accused is so excessive that it seems impossible that this knowledge is not possessed by lawyers of international stature like those chosen by Veliaj.

American observer not allowed in Veliaj's hearing/Did not meet legal criteria
March 11, 10:34

In the worst case, since these people are not criminal lawyers, but simply lobbyists, they have no reason to delve into criminal law.

In the worst case, there are some traders who have caught a cow and, seeing it full, are trying to milk it from every direction, pretending that they are trying to help it.

This option is more plausible than the option that these English consultants question the entire penal system in Albania.

If their claims are to be respected, all criminal legislation in Albania must be rewritten to suit the current situation and needs of client Veliaj.

Consultants say, for example, that the prosecution should file charges first and then impose security measures.

This "lesson" may be expensive, but it does not comply with what the criminal law provides.

In Albania, this is how many suspects are held in custody when evidence could be destroyed by the accused's movements around the city.

How Erion Veliaj destroyed evidence or changed the testimonies of witnesses from Durres prison
April 8, 10:36

In the end, when the investigation is closed, the charges are announced. The same happened in the case of Veliaj and dozens of others.

The Code has no provisions that provide for selective enforcement. The consultants are proposing a case-by-case justice model, as the case may be?

Like in England?

A lawyer may also choose to speak to the media as a defense tactic.

But this is done in direct confrontation with journalists, not by distributing the defense line. In direct confrontation, journalists ask questions, lawyers answer. And each one demonstrates their knowledge of the law and the system live.

We feel obliged to advise the detainee Veliaj that he should not be billed for the distribution of the defense line to the media . It is unethical to bill a client as a service, simply for sending material drafted by lawyers to editorial addresses via e-mail.

No one expects that material to be used to defend the charges. That would be madness.

But the control of the acts of the prosecution is exercised by the courts and not by domestic or foreign law firms . And this is so even when they are costly. Even more so when they are costly.

The system is not there for expensive studios to justify hefty bills.

In a country where taxes are paid (we believe), the studio that pays Veliaj cannot openly pressure justice . Without discussing that the assessment of the source of money paid by a man accused of corruption, money laundering and hiding wealth is the same everywhere on planet Earth and England is no exception.

The only characteristic of these English lobbyists, sold as a legal consultancy firm, is that they are paid by Erion Veliaj to question a justice system established as a result of a reform paid for by US, EU and UK taxpayers .

Contract, Erion Veliaj prepaid 300 thousand dollars to American lawyers
March 25, 16:06

At this point, we can only be satisfied with the fact that a portion of Veliaj's payment to lobbyists-consultants is paid in the form of taxes and returned to Great Britain.

If we were to borrow a little from the fantasy demonstrated by Veliaj's lobbyists-consultants, we could say that this is the way the Albanian people have chosen to repay their debt to the English people.

And we can even be proud of this fact./ CNA